Month: April 2013

A friend was just installing Ad Block Plus on a new machine and sent the following screenshot to me:

There’s something I find highly ironic about the maker of software that limits publishers’ ability to make money asking for donations to continue doing so.

There are a lot of sites out there that use horrible pop-up ads or ads that autoplay with sound, I’m not denying that. There are also a lot of sites that use simple, unobtrusive ads, providing a revenue stream for the site that – in the worst-case scenario – provides no use to the user but also does not do any harm. The latter allows for a bit of a symbiotic relationship between the user and the publisher; the publisher provides content that the user wants and the user may or may not click on ads while viewing that content, providing income back to the publisher.

As I said, there are some aggressive publishers out there, but it’s funny to me that someone who makes it possible to take away income from well-meaning publishers is begging for money to do it.

Just had an interesting SQL question dropped in my lap, figured I’d share the results since it was something I assumed was possible but actually ended up working exactly as I expected, for once.

A friend has a system that he uses to track what baseball uniforms were worn in each game. Each game has an ID and (among other things) the game date, the home score, the road score, the home uniform ID and the road uniform ID. From that data, he wants to be able to pull up the record of a team in a given uniform over a period of time. One particular caveat is that a jersey could be worn by either the home team or the road team (in the case of alternates that can be worn in either location).

I’ve been blogging about hockey since before “blog” was a word but I figured it was time for me to have a place to write about other stuff. I don’t know if this will be a common occurrence or anything but it’d be nice to have somewhere to babble about development, if nothing else.

Speaking of… Kicking off this blog is part of a larger redevelopment of the site that’s been a real interesting learning experience. I rolled my own blog system for DetroitHockey.Net so I hadn’t played with WordPress a whole lot before this. I’ll try to write up what I learned once it’s done.